The DeutschlandTicket - your ride during training
Whether you're travelling to work, to vocational school or in your free time. Get more out of your ticket. With the DeutschlandTicket, you can now travel even further than with your previous ticket and save money too!
One ticket, many advantages
Nationwide mobility with just one ticket
Don't want to spend ages searching for different tickets and price levels? The DeutschlandTicket gives you access to local public transport buses and trains throughout Germany. This means you can easily travel anywhere with just one ticket.
Easy, eco-friendly travel
According to the VDV’s ‘Statistik zum öffentlichen Personennahverkehr und Schienengüterverkehr in Deutschland’ (2024), local public transport in Germany prevents a total of 11 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions. By using local public transport, you’re travelling with an eye to the future.
Your ticket, your ride
By the end of 2025, over 14 million people across Germany held a DeutschlandTicket. Join the biggest carpool!
Buy your DeutschlandTicket conveniently in the VRR app
The DeutschlandTicket is available as a monthly subscription for just 63 euros a month.
The quickest and easiest way to buy your ticket is via the VRR app. Then you always have it conveniently with you on your smartphone. Alternatively, you can fill out the order form and hand it in at your transport company's customer centre. Link to the VRR customer centres.
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FAQ
General information
The DeutschlandTicket is the nationwide season ticket for local public transport in Germany. With the DeutschlandTicket, costing 63.00 euros a month, you can use local buses and trains throughout Germany and travel flexibly across the country.
The DeutschlandTicket is only available as a subscription. If you no longer need it, the DeutschlandTicket can be cancelled free of charge by the 10th of each month to the end of the month.
The DeutschlandTicket is always valid for the current calendar month, can be cancelled monthly and can be cancelled free of charge by the 10th of each month to the end of the month.
The DeutschlandTicket has been valid since 1 May 2023 and is available via the VRR app.
It is not limited to a specific promotional period, but is intended as a permanent offer to relieve the burden on citizens - also to sustainably promote the transport transition towards climate-friendly mobility.
The ticket costs 63 euros per month. It is valid from the first day of the month from which you start the subscription. If you no longer need it, the DeutschlandTicket can be cancelled free of charge by the 10th of each month to the end of the month. If you do not cancel, it will be renewed and charged monthly.
Example: If you no longer wish to use the DeutschlandTicket from September, cancel it by 10 August with the transport company from which you purchased it or in the app by clicking the cancellation button.
The DeutschlandTicket is valid nationwide in all transport associations and with all local transport companies. You can use it on all local transport vehicles, i.e. buses, trams, city trains and underground trains as well as S-Bahn trains, regional trains and 2nd class regional express trains. The ticket is not valid on long-distance services (e.g. ICE, IC, EC), and private providers such as FlixTrain are also excluded.
You can buy the DeutschlandTicket in NRW as a digital version with the app for your smartphone or as a chip card in the customer centre of your transport company. It is not available from ticket machines.
The DeutschlandTicket is available in VRR via these shops/apps:
- VRR App(AppStore | Google Play)
- The VRR/DB TicketShop(TicketShop)
Supplements, carry-over rules, transferability
VRR offers the 1st class monthly ticket and the 1st class subscription ticket for €50.30 per month for 1st class use. It allows you to use 1st class on local trains in the VRR. It is valid in conjunction with the DeutschlandTicket or another season ticket. You can use 1st class throughout the VRR or subscribe to the NRWupgrade 1st class for 75.20 euros per month and use 1st class on local trains throughout NRW.
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The DeutschlandTicket does not include bicycle transport. If you want to take a bike with you regularly, you can buy the new monthly bike ticket for the VRR area or subscribe to the NRWupgrade bike for €42.50 per month and take your bike with you on buses and trains throughout NRW.
It is valid in conjunction with the DeutschlandTicket or another subscription ticket. If you only want to take a bike with you from time to time, the VRR FahrradTicket, which is valid for 24 hours, is sufficient.
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The DeutschlandTicket does not include passenger transport. Accompanying persons under the age of six can travel free of charge, as children only need their own ticket from the age of six.
Dog transport is always free of charge in the VRR area and in NRW. In other regions, there may be different regulations for taking dogs with you. Please enquire in advance depending on the route you are travelling.
No, the DeutschlandTicket, in the app or as a chip card, is personalised and cannot be passed on. Only you are authorised to travel with the ticket. You must always carry a photo ID with you.
Yes, journeys to the Netherlands (e.g. Venlo or Arnhem) are still possible. You can use the following lines:
- RE 13 (Hamm - Unna - Hagen - Wuppertal - Düsseldorf - Mönchengladbach - Viersen - Venlo)
- RE 19 (Düsseldorf Hbf - Duisburg - Oberhausen - Dinslaken - Wesel - Bocholt / Emmerich - Emmerich-Elten - Zevenaar - Arnhem)
- SB 58 (Emmerich Bf - Nijmegen HAN)
- Bus route 29 (Neukirchen - Vl. Vluyner Südring - Straelen - Venlo)
- Bus route 60 (Kleve Bf - Millingen de Gelderse Poort)
- Bus route 91 (Emmerich Bf - 's-Heerenberg Molenpoort)
For journeys that are made exclusively within the Dutch territories or that go beyond the lines just mentioned, the Dutch fare continues to apply. The DeutschlandTicket is only valid on the above lines.
Further information
You can find all the answers to the questions about data protection on the eTicket website.
If buses or trains are delayed by 20 minutes or more or cancelled altogether, the NRW mobility guarantee applies to local transport in North Rhine-Westphalia. This service also applies to people travelling on NRW local transport with a Deutschlandticket. The NRW mobility guarantee only applies to journeys within the North Rhine-Westphalian network and community tariffs and the NRW tariff.